2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network

December 04, 2025 26:16 4.46 MB ( 17.94 MB less) Downloads: 0

What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.

 

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ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization

 

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The VPN panic is only getting started

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement

 

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We were asked about using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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